Gays pelted with excrement after leaving a Latvian church service.

[afleitch]

Another dark day as cowards attack people leaving a church service.

'RIGA (Reuters) - Gay pride participants said they were pelted with eggs and bags of excrement on Saturday as they left a service at the Anglican Lutheran church in the old town of the Latvian capital Riga.

The Reverend Maris Sants, co-organiser of the gay pride festival, told Reuters that security police had been informed about the church service but failed to provide protection.

"There were seven or eight of them waiting for us outside the church and as soon as we came out I was hit with a bag full of sh-t and had to go wash up," Sants said, adding that several other people were hit by similar projectiles and eggs.

Police later confirmed that five people were arrested in connection with the incident.'

[dazzleman]

This is pretty sad.  Nobody who's not bothering anybody should ever be attacked like this.

Human nature can be a very unpleasant thing at times.